Why 13 reps? Because he lived 13 years. Why 170 and 130 lb for dead-lift? Because I weighed 170 lb before we started running together and 130 (actually 129) lb when I joined CFD. Why 200m? Because you’ll run a combined distance of 2 miles, the minimum distance Xander I and I walked/ran every day.

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“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

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